Nashua, NH – May 19, 2009 – AutoVirt™, Inc., the leading provider of Windows file server virtualization solutions, today announced that Children’s Hospital Boston, an internationally renowned center for medical research and treatment, has deployed its AutoClone™ software, in order to increase the speed and efficiency of its Windows data replication operations.  Since its deployment, AutoClone has helped the Children’s Hospital Boston IT organization to reduce its data migration window from almost 12 days to approximately 27 hours.
 
“Speed is crucial,” said Tom Boettcher, Systems Specialist, Children’s Hospital Boston.  “When we were first introduced to AutoClone, we were in the middle of a major data migration initiative involving five business critical servers, each with about eight TBs of data.  It was taking about 12 days to migrate just one server’s data, utilizing a competing product.”  He continued, “When we spoke with AutoVirt, we told them that if their product could complete the move over the weekend, we would be ecstatic.  You can imagine our reaction when AutoClone was able to complete the move in roughly one day!  Moreover, AutoClone’s detailed reporting capabilities allowed us to easily monitor, manage and validate the migration in real-time, thus eliminating the manual ‘housekeeping’ that had been necessary with our previous solution.”
 
“Children’s Hospital Boston runs a sophisticated data center designed to ensure the highest levels of data protection and availability.  Tom Boettcher, together with IS Manager, Ryan Callahan, recognized that devoting as much as 12 days to a data migration initiative was not the best use of their time.  However, in order to guarantee data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as HIPAA regulations compliance, it had been unavoidable,” said Josh Klein, President and CEO of AutoVirt.  “By leveraging AutoClone’s speed and advanced functionality, Children’s Hospital Boston has dramatically reduced the time and effort they must dedicate to data migration initiatives.”

AutoClone features:

• Speed:  AutoClone is optimized for modern network and storage technologies, making it as much as 20 times faster than any other solution available on the market today.
• Intelligent Error Handling:  AutoClone records an accurate and detailed log entry while the replication process continues, uninterrupted.
• Destination Share Support:  AutoClone creates destination shares, including nested shares, and copies ACLs.
• Ease of Ownership:  The AutoClone license agreement includes unlimited installations and use in a single domain, which translates to lower cost and ease of management.
• Heterogeneous Storage Support:  AutoClone delivers optimal performance across your heterogeneous network attached storage (NAS) devices and Windows File Servers.
• Performance Management:  AutoClone allows you to manage system resources and limit the network traffic load by throttling to obtain maximum performance. Save and Restore Program options let you retrieve reusable copy job configurations.
• Detailed Logging:  AutoClone offers options for recording all file activity and enables saving of log files for specific users and copy events, to ensure superior record-keeping and precise monitoring.
• Real-time Monitoring:  AutoClone provides continuous real-time progress reports that help you maintain the highest levels of ongoing operational visibility.

About Children’s Hospital Boston
Children's Hospital Boston is one of the nation's premier pediatric medical centers. Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, today it is a 397-bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. Children's is the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, the largest provider of health care to the children of Massachusetts, and home to the world's leading pediatric research enterprise. For more information about Children's, visit: www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom.
 
About AutoVirt
AutoVirt™, Inc. is the leading provider of Windows file server virtualization solutions.  Its software solutions provide IT Management with the ability to dramatically simplify data management and lower expenses, while ensuring data protection, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity.  AutoMove™ enables customers to automate data migration across their entire Windows environment, transforming it from a point-in-time event, to an automatic and continual load balancing capability.  AutoClone™ helps customers to dramatically increase the speed (up to 20 times faster than competitors) and efficiency of their Windows data replications.  AutoVirt leverages out-of-band deployment capabilities that eliminate the associated cost and added latency of an in-band approach, while allowing customers to maintain flexibility and management control.  For further information, please call: 603-546-2900, email: info@autovirt.com, or visit www.autovirt.com.




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Corporate Communications
AutoVirt, Inc.
508-397-0131
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